Luciferme
Cosmoradio

Luciferme - Cosmoradio

A few years ago, I came across this album by the Tuscan band Luciferme. Its title is "Cosmoradio," perhaps the most famous album of the Florentine group released in 1998, reaching its peak with their participation in the San Remo festival presenting the song "il Soffio." At first glance, their resemblance and stylistic analogies with the rock of Litfiba but above all of U2 influence are immediately noticeable.

A rock sound that is melodic, very catchy, yet at the same time deep, all carried by the singer's voice, Francesco Pisaneschi, which is also very akin to Bono Vox's style. The songs flow smoothly in a harmonious way, perhaps the highlight remains the first single released from this album: "il soffio". In this track, you truly reach the "highest" point of melody and similarity to the Irish quartet, both in the singer's vocal timbre and in the final guitar riff, a romantic and overwhelming piece that also had good intentions at S. Remo.

The more you progress through the album, the more you notice a fundamental aspect: the album does not bore. The songs are not all the same. The simple and sometimes imaginative lyrics are of pleasant craftsmanship... After "il soffio," we indeed have a good interpretation of the '80s track "doot doot" by Freur, followed by another very distinctive track: "figlio del vento", the "where the streets have no name" of the album (though in a very vague form). This leads up to "Cosmoradio", the song from which the album takes its name, and is perhaps the most "experimental" part of the album. Here, it somewhat breaks away from the "lines" followed by the album, but it's just appearance.
The U2 style is always lurking around the corner, vaguely reminiscent of U2's more experimental albums like "Zooropa." Cosmoradio, however, is a song that, with its electronics, also blends with styles like that of 'Bluvertigo' or, in a very subtle way, 'Subsonica'. After cosmoradio, the album returns "to earth," and after a few less convincing tracks, it concludes with the last two: "300mila perché" and "farfalle", which dignifiedly conclude a great album, demonstrating that this "band from Florence" is capable of making excellent quality music while remaining intense and not trivial in a genre (Italian rock) where we have had it up to here with rubbish!

P.s. What ever happened to them?